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This is a beautiful photo sent to me by Ian of what I am assuming is Dora Reinlieb. Dora married William Teiger in New York on 31st October 1926 and this is a photo, taken in 1926, of a bride on her wedding day, called Dora!

Dora Reinlieb born 1902 Gomel, Russia

Now a lovely photo sent by Steven Teiger that shows a handsome younger self sitting with his grandmother Hetty Teiger nee Cohen. Hetty was the wife of Sidney Wollf Teiger (name spellings as they were on the register).

Hetty and Steven

This photo sent by Ian shows Leonora Teiger and Sol Fields (Finkelstein) on their wedding day in 1947. Leonora, daughter of William Teiger and Dora Reinlieb, was quiet young at 19 years old on her wedding day.

Leonora and Sol on their wedding day.

Hello Jack Teiger, brother of Leonora. Jack was born in New York 25th June 1931 and he passed away on 28th May 1990 in Los Angeles.

William Teiger was the son of Jacob Sol Teiger, the line of the family that settled in Liverpool. Jaccob was Mindel’s brother-in-law and it has not yet been proved who arrived in the UK first.

William went to America in 1923 and was listed as a Hebrew cook on the SS Adriatic. He seems to have sailed back and forth to New York several times in 1923 before deciding to settle.

SS Adriatic (White Star Line). Launched, September 20, 1906. Maiden voyage: Liverpool-New York, May 8, 1907. A very steady and excellent type of passenger ship. Sold to Japanese shipbreakers in December 1934. Dismantled in Japan, 1935. Sister ship: Baltic. Note: The top superstructure differed considerably from the Baltic. However they were quite similar in other aspects. The general appearance also was similar to the Cedric and Celtic. The four liners comprised the White Star Line’s “Big Four”.

It wasn’t until 1926 that William married Dora Reinleib who was a Russian immigrant into America. What William was doing in the intervening years I have yet to discover.

1940 finds the family (William, wife Dora and children Leonora and Jack) living at 710 Fairmont Place, Bronx, New York, as they were in 1935. The family still seem to be suffering from the effects of the 1937-1939 American recession (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession_of_1937) as William, a painter in the building trade, has been out of work for the past 16 weeks prior to the census being taken on 1st April 1940. Dora is presently in work employed in children’s clothing manufacture but she too has been unemployed for 8 weeks in the past 12 months. William only worked 20 weeks out of 52 in 1939, Dora worked 40. Their wages for the time they worked are not great. William earned $1400.00 for 20 weeks work, a mere $70.00 per week. Dora’s wages are even lower earning $600 for 40 weeks work, $15.00 per week (this may have been part time work). Their monthly rent was $36.00 per month so I am sure that money would have been tight for them.

Samuel is the son of Jacob Sol Teiger who settled in Liverpool. In 1940 Samuel Issac Teeger (Teiger) was living at 3591 Bainbridge Avenue, New York with his wife, Lillian, and son Alan aged 2yrs (lines 12 to 14). Samuel, a cashier at a restaurant, seems to have been out of work and seeking employment for the past 16wks when the census was carried out on 1st April 1940. During 1939 he worked a total of 36 weeks and had a total annual income of $1200.00. Bearing in mind the rent on this apartment was $40.00 per month ($480.00 a year) it would not leave them much to live on so I would assume that times were hard for them. Lillian was shown as living in Stanford, Fairfield, Connecticut in 1935 presumably before she married Samuel in New York in 1935.

Like this:

Contact email received from Charles J Teiger (known as Joe) in New York. Joe is the son of Sidney Wollf Teiger and Hetty Cohern. He would be a 2nd cousin once removed to Emma North/Adam Phillips. He confirms that his father thought there were two, unrelated, Teiger/Tygier families in Lodz so it can’t be assumed that any records found relate to our line.